Tora ! Tora ! Tora ! allows the "enemy" to be seen as reasonable humans ( as much as war will allow) with calculated decisions to make from their point of view as opposed to a people marching throughout the Far East with reckless abandon.

The Japanese were reeling under the U.S. and Britain oil embargo and were looking to seize the opportunity of their perceived Asian nationalism as the western powers were busy in Europe. The Japanese signed the Tri-Partite pact which in a sense put in motion Japanese aggression towards the U.S.

From the beginning of the film, the directors allow the viewer the many clues to the his

All in all, this was a very enjoyable film that was for the most party historically accurate to the tee. While we see the emperors aides discussing diplomacy and stressing the emperor's wishes to abide by rules of the Geneva Conference and not attack until an official declaration is made, We see very little of U.S. diplomacy. The film instead chooses to focuses on Naval intelligence and there efforts to decode Japanese messages. Much Monday morning quarterbacking has been done in subsequent years. Depending on whom you talk to, the Japanese are depicted as cowards for attacking in the manner they did; at dawn, without protocol of a declaration of war although the film attempts to explain this by explaining that the Japanese ambassador was kept out of the loop by Japanese officials for fear of him tipping the hat of the Japanese. A clearer reason for this is shown in the fact that the Ambassador was not able to crack the Japanese code in time due to a lack of typist as menti!

sees similar scenes where the band is struck on a U.S. warship in almost the same manner as the Japanese down to the commands given via trumpet fanfare and whistle to signal the conductor.

The U.S. is shown in this film has being almost nonchalant during this time. In one scene the military is shown having trouble obtaining a permit for a radar. To top it off, the men assigned to the radar have neither experience nor communications. The U.S. in all of it's military intelligence (in both senses of the word) seem to be ambivalent to considerable shortcomings of Pearl Harbor. The fact that the depth was shallow ( 40 feet; about as shallow as the Oakland Harbors) where a ship could be sank at the mouth of the harbor and effectively trap the fleet in the harbor rendering them ineffective for battle and make them sitting ducks for enemy attack.. In an earlier battle, the British had sank two Italian ships in Toronto in a similar battle. A fact not lost on either the U.S. or Japanese.

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